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The Ploughman's Lunch is a British film of genre Drama directed by Richard Eyre with Jonathan Pryce
The Ploughman's Lunch (1983)
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Add to a movie listThe Ploughman's Lunch is a 1983 film written by Ian McEwan and directed by Richard Eyre which features Jonathan Pryce, Tim Curry and Rosemary Harris.
The film looks at the media world in Margaret Thatcher's Britain during the time of the Falklands War. It was a part of Channel 4's "Film on Four" strand, enjoying a successful and critically lauded theatrical release prior to its television screenings.
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James Penfield (Pryce) is an ambitious London-based BBC radio reporter, from humble origins but Oxford-educated. He is commissioned to write a book on the Suez Crisis and undertakes this commission, claiming not to be a socialist, at the same time as the 1982 Falklands War is starting to dominate the British media.Actors
Jonathan Pryce
(James Penfield)
Tim Curry
(Jeremy Hancock)
Rosemary Harris
(Ann Barrington)
Frank Finlay
(Matthew Fox)
David de Keyser
(Gold)
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